Well, their demos and debut EP were all occult themed. But their full-length "Never Again" saw their style stripped from that. They also began incorporating different musical elements and approaches, starting to show tendencies for simple rock music. Their last album is gothic grunge rock, not at all like their previous works. Going down this road probably helped former fans turn their backs on them. Changing your image with each album just doesn't work very well in metal.

Regardless of their later mistakes Wisdom Of Darkness is still a great classic, in a way I like it better than Impaled Nazarene because it doesn't incorporate joke tracks.

Did anyone? You would be surprised how few people even remember Demigod... and in black metal (cf. Beherit), for mostly image-related reasons, exposure was negative back in the day.

I think they could have been another Amorphis or Sentenced with the "Never Again" material, but suffice to say: Lethal Records. Some bands made their own promotion and connections to the global underground but that required language skills, diligence, a "clerical" sort of attitude in general which many of these drunks and scoundrels didn't possess.

But I know disconnected occasions of Belial logo famously appearing in abandoned houses of Finnish suburbs, so it may be safe to say that private worship always celebrated this cult!

Right, most likely the first issue was on Lethal in 1992 with the cover they have on MA and the reissue is the same year, on the same label with the cover shown in DLA. I was hoping someone here knew for a fact how it went down, because I could not find the complete information anywhere else.

Belial the Lord is interesting. How the band portray Wisdom of Darkness with Belial as Lord alongside the rise of humanity, Hekate portrayed with a sword, a plate, a jug, torch, and snakes right here see, and finally Christ's corruption by who knows what. I read somewhere that Christ agrees with Satan. I don't remember it's context. I don't think of Christ much (cause I certainly ain't fucking Christ or his offspring), but I try not to think of him as being humanist and expecting every little person to get to heaven.

I revisited Wisdom of Darkness recently and it's a very impressive effort. Though easily overlooked due to wimping out on their full length, this band could easily have represented the missing link between Beherit and Impaled Nazarene.